Using tabs instead of spaces in IDLE?

[Cliff Wells]

On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:44:45 +1300
Greg Ewing wrote:

> Courageous wrote:
> > 
> > And while vim indeed does just what I said, when you backspace over
> > these runs of spaces while in insert mode, it knows how those spaces
> > where generated and so:
> > 
> > "deletes any such spaces inserted through a tab, just as if
> > it were deleting a single tab."
> 
> This sounds ingenious, but what happens when you save the
> file and load it back? Does it remember this information
> somehow, or does it get lost?

It doesn't.  It saves the file with spaces.  It's basically emulating tabs
with spaces.  That's the whole point - you get the convenience of tabs with
the uniformity (conventions-wise) of spaces.


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